Primary Health Care Interventions for Obesity in Australia

This report addresses the critical issue of obesity within the Australian population, highlighting its prevalence and impact on public health, especially among younger adults and Indigenous communities. It identifies obesity as a national health priority and explores various contributing factors, including high-calorie intake and sedentary lifestyles. The report emphasizes the role of primary health care in combating obesity, proposing a multi-faceted approach that includes primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention strategies. Primary prevention involves raising awareness through campaigns to educate the public about the negative health effects of obesity. Secondary prevention focuses on promoting healthy nutrition and diet, while tertiary prevention encompasses management through pharmacological therapies or surgical procedures, along with exercise. The report concludes by underscoring the importance of a holistic approach, integrating lifestyle changes and health promotion strategies to prevent and manage obesity effectively.

INTRODUCTION
Obesity refers to the complex disease that includes
excessive amount of body fat. This include high impact on
individual health. This also lead to create the risk of
medical problem and cause various diseases or health
problems like diabetes, heart disease, certain cancer or
elevated blood pressure. This is highly effective and have
negative health impact to large number of population (De
Lorenzo et. al., (2019)).
National health priority area
Obesity is national health priority area within
Australia which include high impact on population. There
are about 2 in 3 people in Australia are facing obesity or
overweight. This include about 67% of people where 36%
of people are overweight and about 31% of people are
obese. This is about 12.5 million adults. This leads to
create the National health priority area that should be
taken under consideration to decrease the negative health
impact on the large population (Wilson et. al., (2019)).
There is need to take care of health and ensure about
change in lifestyle that can include body exercise, healthy
nutrition and diet and many more.
Target population and justification
There are large number of Australia population are getting obese in which younger
adults age between 20 - 24 are highly affected which leads to create high negative health
impact. There are larger number of younger adults who are facing the health issue that include
getting exposed to other disease like certain cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes and many
more. Here, Indigenous Australians who are outside major cities with lower socioeconomic
groups are highly exposed to the obesity (Partridge et. al., (2022)). There is various cause of
obesity within people which includes different reason that lead to create the risk of obesity.
Here, one of the main reason for the obesity is uptake of high calories than body needs that
leads to accumulation of fat. This also includes that when individual eat too much and move
too little which can lead to create risk of obesity to individual.
Health promotion strategy
Health promotion strategy can be effective to deal with obesity.
Primary prevention includes the creating awareness regarding the obesity and its
negative effect on health. Creating awareness through campaign can allow to provide education
to people about negative health impact of obesity which impact their health and lifestyle.
Secondary prevention includes taking care of nutrition which may include better and
healthy diet for improving better health and allow to take care of healthy weight. Proper and
healthy diet is effective to deal with risk of obesity (Whitehead et. al., (2021)).
Tertiary prevention includes the management along pharmacological therapies or
surgical procedure that can include the exercise for improving body weight and obesity. Here,
daily exercise can be effective management to reduce the obesity and prevent through different
negative health impact.
These are effective and help to promote healthier lifestyle to support and optimise
health related decision.
Primary health care in action
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it can have concluded
that there is need to take care of effective health where
every individual need to prevent the risk of obesity. There
is need to use the strategy to prevent obesity through
applying primary, secondary and tertiory prevention
strategy.
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